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Chapter 570 The Balance Between Individual Development and Sacrifice for the Team: Is the Sacrifice Really Worth It?
Doinb switched lanes back and forth these two times, but he still got caught.

This undoubtedly made things even worse for FPX's already difficult laning phase in the mid and top lanes.

At this point, the game time had only reached 8 minutes.

The crocodile is already 25 CS ahead of Yasuo, and is about to reach 30 CS.

Akali, who was initially only slightly pressured in the top lane and became less and less pressured as she leveled up.

Because I made two empty trips back and forth between the middle and upper sections, I wasted a lot of time.

At this point, there was already a 20-CS difference between him and Knight's plane.

Of course, at this moment, there is still a large wave of about ten blue side minions under FPX's top lane turret, which Akali hasn't eaten yet.

How many last hits can be recovered depends on how many turret CS GimGoon can get this time.

But the plane has long arms, while Akali has short arms.

The most difficult time for a short-ranged player to lane against a long-ranged player is undoubtedly when they are last-hitting minions under the tower.

Taking advantage of this large wave of minions pushing into the tower, the plane managed to get a layer of tower armor.

Finally, after a large wave of minions was depleted, Akali narrowed the CS gap between herself and Corki by five.

These five soldiers are less valuable than the layer of tartare the plane just ate.

The observer's view shifted back to the mid lane, where Xiaotian's Gragas ganked hard.

It was supposed to be a gank, but it was really just about letting Yasuo farm a wave of minions.

Zhou Dian's crocodile didn't even glance at the barrel next to him; he just went about his business!

"I remember that the first player to use Renekton in the mid lane was Doinb in the LPL, and he also played it the most!" Guan Zeyuan said.

"That's absolutely right!" Remember said with a smile, "Today, Doinb really got a taste of what it's like to be bullied by this kind of unconventional mid laner!"

"What goes around comes around!" Cat King suddenly said.

"All I can say is that although FPX is having a tough time right now, they can't afford to rush things!"

"Although you're at a disadvantage in the early to mid-game, the disadvantage isn't too great yet. If you rush to turn the tide and lose another team fight, you'll be completely doomed because you have no chance of a comeback!"

Although Cat Emperor seemed to be giving FPX advice.

But his high-pitched tone always carried a sarcastic tone, making people feel that he was actually mocking FPX.

However, just as Cat Emperor said, FPX calmed down and didn't rush to do anything.

Focus on farming on each lane first, ensuring your own development, and wait for TES to make a mistake.

In League of Legends matches, the safest way for the losing side to turn the tide is indeed to wait for the opponent to make a mistake.

On TES's side, the mid-lane Renekton is currently extremely strong, and the bot lane also has the initiative to push the lane.

After clearing out his jungle camps, Xx took advantage of the temporary lack of jungle camps to go and kill the dragon.

At 9 minutes and 40 seconds into the game, Spider soloed the dragon.

TES secured the first dragon of the game, an earth dragon.

Then, a yellowish-brown mark appeared on the inner wall of the small dragon pit.

This means that the next dragon will also be an earth dragon.

This is yet another piece of bad news for FPX.

If TES manages to secure two Earth Dragons, and given their dual marksman duo of Corki and Kai'Sa, their speed in stealing Baron Nashor will be incredibly fast.

It's simply impossible to defend against.

While Xx was fighting the dragon, Knight's Corki retreated in time, throwing missiles from behind to finish off the enemy.

Knight's discipline was pretty good this time.

From the observer's perspective, you can see that Gragas and Yasuo are now near the top lane.

The plane's sudden retraction was quite timely.

Of course, Zhou Dian had signaled to the top laner early on that Yasuo had missed.

Zhou Dian's crocodile didn't roam around aimlessly with Yasuo; instead, it stayed in the mid lane farming minions.

Yasuo roaming instead of farming is completely putting the cart before the horse.

But Doinb has no choice; playing in the mid lane is extremely difficult for him now.

Since he couldn't catch the enemy plane even after roaming to the top lane, Doinb simply went to the top lane and switched lanes.

GimGoon then used his B skill again, preparing to go to the mid lane.

"Doinb is still not giving up, he's switched back in!" Guan Zeyuan said with a smile, "But his left-handed plane has already slipped away!"

When Yasuo reached the top lane, the plane had already finished its recall countdown in the bushes and returned to its own fountain.

After replenishing his equipment, Knight piloted the plane to pick up the explosive pack by the fountain.

The game time had just reached 10 minutes when the explosive pack spawned.

"This wave of planes is just waiting with their bombs, waiting for FPX to split their lanes!" Remember said. "FPX is determined to switch lanes, but TES is equally determined to have Renekton lane against Yasuo!"

"Akali teleported to mid lane, Corki is heading towards mid now!"

At this moment, from the observer's perspective, the crocodile pushed a wave of minions to FPX's mid-lane tower.

The second plating layer is just a little bit away from being completed.

However, Zhou Dian did not choose to eat the plating.

Instead, he directly controlled the crocodile and headed straight for the top lane.

This coating will be used on Knight's plane.

He'd rather Yasuo not eat the plating now than eat the plating.

The plane, laden with explosives, sped toward the central route.

"Zhou Shen went up in this wave without using teleport. I feel that TES probably won't switch lanes after this, so they'll just let the Crocodile stay on the side lane!" Cat Emperor said.

"Very likely!" Remember nodded. "If FPX continues to make changes and insists on having Yasuo face off against Corki, it's pointless to continue the matchup now, as Yasuo's farm is too poor!"

"And Crocodile is developing quite well now, so no matter who he faces, he can dominate on the wing."

"So TES has returned to their original positions. After all, having Corki in the mid lane and Renekton on the side lane better utilizes the strengths of these two champions!"

However, just as TES's top and bottom lanes were gaining an increasingly significant advantage.

The bottom lane, which had a perfect start, ran into problems.

At 10 minutes and 26 seconds into the game, after pushing a wave of minions, Ben's Morgana went into the bottom river, intending to establish vision in the river and FPX's blue buff area.

With a Titan on the opposing team, LokeN naturally wouldn't leave the bottom lane alone, so he controlled Kai'Sa to follow Morgana to the river.

As the undisputed best-performing jungler during this year's Summer Split, Xiaotian astutely seized the opportunity at this moment.

As Morgana walked upstream along the river, Xiaotian's barrel was walking downstream on the other side of the wall.

Then, Morgana stepped into FPX's blue buff area and placed a ward.

He first placed a control ward through the wall while the barrels were scanning towards him, and then placed it in the river bush in the bottom lane.

Once the ward is placed, TES will have no vision of the bushes.

Gragas decisively used his E skill to jump over the wall and into the bottom lane river bush.

The barrel moved forward without being detected by TES.

Xiaotian was in the bushes, waiting for the TES bot lane duo to return to the bot lane.

On TES's side, after Ben entered FPX's blue buff area, he immediately spotted a control ward.

He originally intended to remove the true ward.

However, the bottom lane minions immediately converged, and LokeN immediately controlled Kai'Sa to go back and farm minions.

Out of caution, Ben abandoned the control ward he had halfway through attacking and controlled Morgana to follow Kai'Sa back to the bottom lane.

LokeN was also quite cautious, with Kai'Sa walking back along the Dragon Pit. He didn't plan to return directly from the river, but instead opted to first enter his own bot lane's tri-bush area and then use that area to return to the bot lane.

However, no matter how cautious the two TES bot laners were, they didn't expect that a Gragas was already camping in the spot they had just passed.

Just as Kai'Sa turned to the left, about to reach her own bottom lane tri-bush...

A bucket flew out of the grass in the lower riverbed on the right!

Caught off guard, LokeN had no time to react and use Flash.

Ben didn't react in time to give Kai'Sa Black Shield.

By the time Morgana applied the Black Shield to Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa had already been blasted away by the exploding barrels.

And it's flying towards FPX's bottom laner, jungler, and support.

Gragas, who had already acquired the AP jungle item, used his Body Slam (E) to bump Kai'Sa while she was flying in mid-air.

One bite of his belly and the black shield on Kai'Sa was gone.

Then, before Kai'Sa even landed, she was hooked by Titan.

Before Kai'Sa could even land an auto-attack after hooking the Titan, she was already dead from the damage from Gragas and Lucian.

Taking advantage of Kai'Sa being surrounded, Morgana quickly used Flash to jump over the barrel blocking her way and arrived at the tri-bush in her bottom lane.

However, at the very moment Morgana flashed, she was still hit by Nautilus's ultimate.

Using Flash to create distance again was futile.

Because Morgana no longer has the Black Shield that grants immunity to crowd control.

Although Morgana stepped out of the tri-bush before being knocked up by Titan's ultimate, she turned around and used her Q to root Titan.

However, being knocked away still brought the barrel, which was already closest to him, right up close.

Even though his skills are all on cooldown, Gragas still has a red buff.

One ordinary move is enough to keep Morgana glued to her.

Seeing that Morgana was not far from TES's bottom lane tower, in order to avoid any mishaps, Lwx decisively flashed to close the distance and attack Morgana.

Lucian and Gragas quickly got Morgana drunk and killed her.

TES's bot lane duo both died.

Gragas and Lucian each got a kill.

The 2,000 gold advantage that TES had gained through pure laning was instantly wiped out by 1,000 gold.

"Tian was incredibly clever this time!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed. "He completely caught TES's bot lane off guard, sneaking right past them. Neither of them expected it!"

"Xiao Tian really made a great contribution this time, turning around all the previous disadvantages!" Cat Emperor added.

"No, no, that's not true!" Remember quickly said, "Xiaotian's move was just helping his bot lane turn the tide. There's no dragon to take, and TES's mid and top lanes still have a real advantage!"

At this point, the observer's view shifts to the middle lane.

The plane was carrying a bomb and was violently pushing Yasuo's line.

As expected, Doinb's Yasuo went to the top lane to push a wave of minions, and then went back to the mid lane.

He absolutely refused to be on the same side as the crocodile.

This is a real hardship for GimGoon.

Akali used her precious teleport to go to the mid lane to farm in order to prevent the mid lane from being left undefended.

After teleporting over, I managed to get four kills from the tower, but then I had to walk back to the top lane to face the giant crocodile that was about to devour me.

At this point, with less than 11 minutes of game time remaining, Zhou Dian's crocodile had already reached 110 CS.

One cut per second!

Even without any kills or assists, the crocodile is already incredibly fed with that last-hitting efficiency.

Seeing that his bottom lane was being ganked, Xx quickly abandoned the jungle monsters he was farming and headed straight for the Rift Herald.

However, Akali, who was walking to the top lane, abandoned the top lane minions and started harassing Elise.

Once the crocodile and the plane had pushed the top and mid lane minions respectively and were heading towards the Baron pit, FPX's jungler and support had also arrived in the mid lane from the bottom lane.

TES obviously can't take down this Rift Herald.

All I can say is that GimGoon is such a great team.

This harassment of the spider caused him to miss out on another wave of minions in the top lane.

Akali's CS has been overtaken by Yasuo.

Akali's development has been somewhat off.

And it wasn't because the opponent crushed them, or because they made a mistake and ruined their own game.

He simply ignored the minion wave situation and kept running back and forth between the mid and top lanes, which caused the game to collapse.

However, although League of Legends is a team game.

However, if a team is too focused on individual development and its members are underdeveloped, they may become a weak point for the opponent, which would ultimately harm the team.

A balance must be struck between personal development and sacrifice for the team.

Just like in this game, GimGoon's Akali sacrificed herself for Doinb's Yasuo.

A well-developed Akali is not afraid of Renekton at all, and even the initiative in a fight is completely in Akali's hands.

Because Akali is more agile and better at pulling and maneuvering.

But the game has only been going on for a little over 11 minutes, and Akali has lost almost 40 CS to the crocodile, making her level a whole tier lower.

As long as Zhou Dian doesn't make a mistake, Akali won't be able to stand up to him or turn the tables in front of his crocodile!

This slight advantage is completely insufficient to compensate for lagging behind in equipment and level.

GimGoon made a mistake, and Zhou Dian is about to break through his defense on the side lane in this game.

If he really becomes the weak point in the matchup and loses the game, Doinb's fans will only say that GimGoon is bad, can't beat Zhou Dian at all, and let my pigeon down.

They won't care why you were breached; they'll only talk about the result of the breach.

But if GimGoon could withstand the pressure in his lane, his teammates would catch up and they would win the game.

Those fans will only praise how great their idol is, and they won't appreciate your sacrifice at all.

In contrast, Zhou Dian is very good at maintaining a balance.

He won't blindly sacrifice himself for the team, nor will he mindlessly farm minions to develop his character.

Unlike the dual-carry build that relies on farming money to develop your character, this build is much more reliable.

The top lane position can be a real dilemma sometimes.

Should one prioritize their own development or sacrifice some development for the sake of the team?

This is a question that every top laner weighs throughout their entire career.

There are many viewers and fans who have complained that Zhou Dian plays games too selfishly.

However, there are also many viewers and fans who have praised Zhou Dian for being a good team player and having a strong sense of the big picture.

A truly top-tier top laner must possess both a carry and a utility role style.

A top laner who only knows one style can certainly succeed, but they are destined to wait for the version that suits them best and cannot remain at the top for long.

Of course, this is difficult.

Not to mention that different game styles can be switched at any time.

Even simply changing one's game style or gameplay is extremely difficult.

In fact, not only in the top lane, but across all positions in League of Legends, there are very few players who can step out of their comfort zone and change their playstyle.

(End of this chapter)